The difference is Joe is that Valve didn't announce the game. The reason Valve was flamed was because of TF2, they made a news post about switching to a new engine for TF2 and that there would be "more details in the coming months" and then just let that community die without saying a word.

What I like about this game is the MASSIVE single player improvements.

I hated how in JK2 missions would take something like an hour each, and how you had to DOOM it out for a few missions before you got a sabre.

Jedi Academy, not only are the missions shorter (finished most in under 15 minutes), but a lot of them are more creative. I'm thinking the swoop race, and the big worm a-la tremors missions, among others.

All in all less repetitive and much more standable.

Force rage however is rather unbalanced. At max level it takes 20 health off, provides a 90% damage resistance, an insane damage boost, and a speed boost as well. To give you an idea of its power, when fighting the final boss on the dark side, the fight lasted for less than 4 seconds. I swear to god thats not hyperbole either.

Wiggamoe Valve has said that the new HL2 videos are only being released through steam, but you are allowed to distribute the videos. Fileplanet does not have an exclusive and are not charging for it, they simply did what every other site did and got it off steam.